 I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging. Author: Barbara Hershey |
| Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. Author: Lydia M. Child |
| A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. Author: Wyndham Lewis |
| It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Author: Simone de Beauvoir |
| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott |
| We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Author: Frank Howard Clark |
| Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. Author: George Bernard Shaw |
| In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. Author: Will Durant |
| Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. Author: Kitty O'Neill Collins |
| Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Author: Ausonius |
| Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. Author: Cloris Leachman |
| One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Author: Abraham Lincoln |
| Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Author: Lewis Mumford |
| Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. Author: Felix Frankfurter |
| You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out." Author: Jerry Seinfeld |
| Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Author: W. Somerset Maugham |
| Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. Author: Art Linkletter |
| The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. Author: Jay Leno |
